Hirake-goma is literally "open sesame" and based on the English expression. I can imagine some self-important bluehair localizer sat there thinking "Gawd- 'OPEN SESAME?' Such an old meme... it's like something my parents would say! My Lian ain't got time for that cringe. Can we do something more original here?"
Does the Japanese in that panel rhyme or something? I was trying to figure out why they wouldn't just go with "Open sesame" ...
Don't blame this on dementia (which is not helping). This is being a straight up liar. He's done it his whole career.
The media-factcheck industrial complex will go to town on the smallest hyperbole and exagerration of Trump's but Biden can repeatedly say things that are verifiably false and never get called on it.
The media is the enemy. Not "your" enemy or "my" enemy, but the enemy. Everyone's enemy.
Halal (allowed) slaughter means cutting the throat of the animal and draining the blood. There's a bit more in terms of ritual, but that's pretty much it.
Carrion meat is haram (forbidden) in Islam.
Yep. My kids attend a uniform school. It's one of the things that I would have HATED as a kid, but I see the benefits with a few years of separation (and hopefully some added wisdom).
I, a man, was a kid who never struggled in school. I was well-behaved, did my class work, sometimes did my homework, never got in fights, and rarely found anything tough. I was a good student. My teachers liked me. I liked most of my teachers.
My perspective "from the inside" was that everything was fine.
When I had my own kids, I began to see just how difficult schooling can be for many boys. Not all, but many. Modern school is essentially an effeminate undertaking and it's geared towards girls. Every year the percentage of male teachers K-12 decreases. This is why you often see girl children outperforming boys at a young age (elementary school and into middle school). Girls both mature faster and generally do better in the rigid behavioral framework of school.
Once you hit highschool and college, you see the boys starting to mature AND be able to be independent. This is when boys start overtaking girls in academic performance in many fields.
I think there's a lot to be said for gender segregated classes.
You know the Mike Tyson quote? "Everyone's got a plan, until you get hit in the face."
The modern corollary is "Everyone's a strong independent woman, until you run into something that a man should handle."
It's a given that most media at most times sucks. But current day is really trying to up the ante:
Even before this adventure begins, Vecna has been embarking on a plan that’s many years in the making”, Hamon explains. “He’s been instructing his cult – which is across all DnD planes and DnD settings – to specifically extract important and powerful secrets.”
Every stolen secret serves Vecna’s “Ritual of Remaking”, which Hamon says will give him enough power to “remake the multiverse to his own will”. But secrets can be used to stop Vecna too, provided they’re shared freely.
So D&D is aping Marvel's multiverse and the infinity stones? How much more derivative can you get.
Yep, offline or solo play only for me.
Ditto. That's why I play World of Warcraft.
Turkish. Probably a Dönme.
"Beyond mere translation, we're diving into the art of cultural adaptation, preserving context, and inclusive storytelling."
"mere" translation
the art of cultural adaptation
preserving context
inclusive storytelling
One of these things is not like the other...
Man has always loved his barges, but, what happens when the barges say "NO MORE."
I played a couple of the Ultimas as a kid. For me, the interface is just too rough to play today. I've tried a couple times with Ultima4, 6, and even 7, and I just can't do it.
I still want to play 7 some day.
I've been playing old adventure games using Dosbox and ScummVM recently. I'm having a lot of fun. I've been point maxing some games that seemed impossible as a kid, playing games I wanted but never got, etc.
I'm thinking about trying some of the really old Gold Box D&D games. Pools of Radiance, etc. Not sure that they've aged well.
This is true for so many cultural things today, unfortunately.
"Wouldn't it be cool if there were new Star Trek movies and new Star Trek series with new special effects?!?!" No, it sucks and ruined my favorite characters.
"Wouldn't it be awesome if they made a Wheel of Time TV series! I can't wait to see my favorite characters! So cool!" No, it sucks, and they ruined my favorite characters.
"Star Wars!! It's going to be so cool to have new movies, new theme parks, new TV shows, new stories!!!" No, it sucks, they LITERLALY KILLED my favorite characters.
"Wouldn't it be awesome if there was a TV show about the history of the Lord of the Rings?! That would be so cool!!" No. Just...no.
I stopped watching Game of Thrones in the later season (I'm a book reader, still hoping to one day finish the books), but at least that show was a relatively accurate reproduction for the first couple of seasons. No insane race/gender swaps, no weird insert characters, etc. Early seasons only.
It's sad, but it would literally be impossible to make Lord of the Rings today. Literally impossible. The casting alone would make it impossible. Those movies are no 100% accurate to the books, but they are close, and they are always respectful. No director would be given the power to do that today. Hell, few directors would WANT to do that today.
Where I live, laws are based entirely on the value of the item- your neighbor cut down 100-year-old tree that was the centerpiece of your landscaping?
Interesting. Where I live it’s usually based around replacement value. 100-year-old tree? Replacement value (so $$$). In some places there are penalty multipliers for a malicious action, so think of replacement cost of a 100 foot oak. Don’t cut down your neighbor’s trees!
Definitely sounds like a purple monkey dishwasher idea.
"Women aren't meant to be with one man. They're mothers, and meant to have a lot of babies with different genes for the fitness and survival of the species."
That shit can go both ways.
Ah, Christology!
1 Cross + 3 Nails = 4 Given
Also, her "daughter" (Woman+? Body Type 1/2?) is marrying a woman and is a Warcraft geek.
Warcraft movie premier with son Thomas: https://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/jamie-lee-curtis-son-warcraft-movie-premiere-2016-41574233
Warcraft wedding as Jaina with "daughter" Rubythomas: https://ew.com/movies/jamie-lee-curtis-officiating-daughters-wedding-as-world-of-warcraft-character/
And just in case anyone was curious, because I had not heard about this:
Liar!!! The picture that Jamie Lee Curtis has in her house is a photograph of a naked young child stuffed in a box, not a child "being raped." Bigot. DEBONKED.
Hah, I actually know this area. Sad thing is, there are some beautiful neighborhoods in the South Side. Areas that were English, Irish, Polish, etc., all changed dramatically in roughly the 1940s/1950s. Beautiful old homes, walkable city blocks, trees -- it should be an urban paradise.
This is near where Michelle Obama grew up.
Friends and I used to drive down to a taco bell and white castle in this neighborhood. You had to hand over your cash (and receive your food) through a sealed metal box behind bullet proof glass--like at a bank. Yeah, it was crazy.
Love 30 Rock. It's amazing to me that it aired only 10 years ago but is too edgy for todays audiences. It could not be made today.
Old school comedy. You know, where everybody was fair game?
My youth was tv shows crossing the line more and more. The Simpsons were edgy as crap, saying "that sucks" was worthy of corporal punishment, and so forth. Now we're going the opposite direction again.
We must be roughly the same era. Loved napster at college. Kazaa? eMule?
I remember one year at college there was a job fair, and one company was giving out USB thumb drives. Probably like 8mb or 16mb or something. Awesome!
People were waiting in line like 20+ minutes just to get one.
Truly the glory days of the Internet.
I will also have a soft spot in my heard for 90s Something Awful and JeffK.
So the Japanese is "Come out, come out Magic Lens. Open Sesame!" and the translators went with "Rub-a-dub-dub, open ya schlub"?
That's bizarre, unless there's a lot of context I'm missing. Wouldn't "Come out, come out, where ever you are" have been the more natural and slightly idiomatic translation?